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[Greg Ewing]

Georg Brandl wrote:
> The call syntax part is a mixed bag: on the one hand it is nice to be
> consistent with the extended possibilities in literals (flattening),
> but on the other hand there would be small but annoying inconsistencies
> anyways (e.g. the duplicate kwarg case above).

That inconsistency already exists -- duplicate keys are
allowed in dict literals but not calls:

 >>> {'a':1, 'a':2}
{'a': 2}

-- 
Greg